The Totana City Council is going to present allegations to the photovoltaic plant project whose construction is planned at the Lorca deputation of Zarcilla de Ramos

Totana City Council plans to submit allegations to the photovoltaic plant project that will be built in the Lorca deputation of Zarcilla de Ramos because it "seriously" affects the interests of residents of Totana and Aledo by the layout of the High Voltage Line projected for the evacuation of the electrical energy in the substation located next to the industrial polygon "El Saladar", in the totanero municipality.

This has been agreed unanimously by the Local Government Board of the totanero Consistory following the proposal presented by the Municipal Group Win Totana-IU.

In these days, the IP-3/2017 file for the extension of the Photovoltaic Plant planned in the municipality of Lorca is in the phase of exposure to the public.

The municipal government of Totana understands that the Consistory "must defend their interests and those of their neighbors and, by solidarity, those of the neighbors and affected by this layout of the neighboring municipality of Aledo."

The business group Andaltia is the promoter of the construction of the solar photovoltaic power plant "Lorca Solar, which cost 400 million euros, and they intend to begin its execution in 2018 in this hamlet Lorca with the aim of the central be operational in the year 2020.

This evacuation line is a high voltage line that, according to the project, will have a length of about 40 kilometers and will link the photovoltaic solar plant from Zarcilla de Ramos with the electrical substation located in El Saladar (Totana), also crossing the municipality of Aledo, allowing the evacuation of the spill to the network of the electrical energy of the plant, whose capacity would be 400 megawatts.

There are more than 3,000 allegations that have been registered in Totana and 800 in Aledo to the modification of the project during the last month of October.

To that, the platform affected by this high voltage line adds about 4,500 signatures that have been collected against said project to evacuate the energy produced in the photovoltaic power plant "Lorca Solar", designed by the company X-Elio in that district of Lorca.